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...common misconception about hackers is that their sole intent is to defraud other people. However, there are those who hack purely for the challenge and the enjoyment of it. They generally do not have any malicious intent further than pranking the server they break into and perhaps turning some heads...
...prime example is the recent hack of the Harvard Lampoon's Web site by a Columbia University Marching Band member. No real permanent damage was done to the server on which the Lampoon's Web page resides, and the student's main goal was simply to play a joke on the Lampoon...
...that Case may soon discover that Netscape is a double-edged sword. AOL's old mandate was simple: get as many people as possible onto its service. Now that it's a sprawling, vertically integrated e-commerce company, nasty intramural conflicts are inevitable. When Jeff Bezos upgrades Amazon.com's server software, for instance, will he buy it from AOL, which is the host for arch-competitor Barnes & Noble? Will the Internet service providers who compete with AOL choose Navigator as their browser, and thus enrich their fiercest rival? How will McNealy feel when AOL creates enterprise tools...
...million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...
...Internet is about to take on a whole new shape. Negotiations are still under way, but service-and-content behemoth America Online looks set to snap up Netscape in a $4 billion all-stock deal Monday. Sun Microsystems, also involved in the talks, would take over Netscape's server-end software; AOL would run the popular Netcenter portal and keep the browser itself in safe hands. Right now, AOL has an exclusive contract with Microsoft to distribute Internet Explorer to its 14 million subscribers; that agreement may expire on January 1, 1999. A deal to divide Netscape with Sun would...